The Imagination Quotes
Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.
One of the great elements of the supernatural is having that mystery and letting people's imaginations run wild with it.
I think my weakness as a writer is a limited imagination, and I think my strength is a talent for reflecting the world, or sort of curating things out of the world and putting them into books.
I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.
I don't know exactly why the notion of homeownership has such a grasp on the American imagination. Perhaps as descendants of landless immigrants we turn our plots into symbols of stability.
Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.
Before we sent kids to computer camps and told them they were having a good time, there was imagination among the human species.
Love is an act of imagination. For some of us, it will be the greatest creative triumph of our lives.
What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set the most high.
Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.
Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author. Reasoning poers must be brought to reinforce imagination.
Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.
Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.
Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.
If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity.
The culture is with some rapidity fearing its imagination. I don't know why. Imagination is not of interest.
The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that don't exist now except in imagination.
Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.
For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past.
For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.
Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.
If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.
It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household.
Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.
Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.
The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them.
A house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil.
A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel.
Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.
Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic.
But he was not kidnapped. ... It's in his imagination. He creates his own world and he believes it is reality.
It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.
The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.
The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.
Discovery peaked 30 years ago. It takes no feat of the imagination. It takes no feat of intellect to conclude we now face the corresponding peak in production in 2005.
I'm a better coach now than when I joined Celtic. The longer you stay in any job, the better you become. If you lose your drive, your enthusiasm, your imagination, that experience is no good.
Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.
I love connecting with kids. I love connecting with children of all ages to keep their imagination active because that's the key to happiness and imagination and creativity.
People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason, in a way that animals can’t do.